4 Year Old Program Objectives

During the school year, each of the objectives below will be addressed during the course of the daily instruction and activities:

Social/Emotional

• Learn to function as part of a group
• Learn to follow routines
• Learn to follow directions
• Develop a sense of self-worth
• Learn to care for personal needs
• Gain independence in self-help
• Learn to follow through on activities
• Learn to handle frustration & anger appropriately
• Become comfortable with adults
• Begin to make peer friendships
• Increase attention span in individual & group activities
• Learn to work independently
• Become self-motivated in initiating activities
• Problem solve
  

Creative Arts

Art

• Experiment with a variety of art mediums
• Learn different kinds of art (painting, sculpture etc.)
• Discriminate between realism, non-realism
• Begin to use creativity in art

Music

• Learn simple songs & musical games
• Do rhythmic activities
• Do body movement activities
• Hear various musical instruments and how the sound is made

Drama

• Tell and act out familiar stories and songs
• Use imagination in making up stories
• Demonstrate feelings through body movement
• Explore “body language”
  
  

Language Arts

• Instill enjoyment of books
• Learn the relationship between language and print
• Learn proper care of books
• Be able to relate an experience verbally
• Be able to tell a story about a picture
• Retell a familiar story
• Sequence pictures to tell a story
• Reinforce ability to label objects correctly
• Recognize same & different concepts
• Recognize what is missing in a picture
• Increase listening skills
• Develop auditory & visual discrimination
• Recognize the alphabet (upper/lower case) & some beginning sounds
• Begin writing skills (name, right to left, top to bottom)
• Develop visual & auditory memory
• Recognize opposites
• Rhyme
• Learn finger plays
• Use language to express ideas, feelings & to gain information
  
  

Motor Development

Gross

• Move in a generally coordinated manner
• Toss, catch & bounce a ball
• Balance on one foot, on a beam, while walking heel to toe
• Run, jump, hop, climb, gallop, skip, roll
• Pedal a tricycle

Fine

• Hold pencil correctly
• Cut with scissors successfully
• Draw or copy simple shapes (circle, cross, square)
• Do age appropriate puzzles
• String beads, place pegs
• Use glue neatly
  
  

Perception

• Do puzzles of increasing difficulty
• Build with large & small blocks
• Develop ability to discriminate by touch, sound, taste, smell
• Match designs as in parquetry
• Develop hand-eye coordination
• Discriminate by size, shape, color
• Recognize same & different
• Increase auditory & visual discrimination
• Match patterns with blocks or pegs
  
  

Social Science

• Become aware of different cultures through visits, stories, foods
• Learn about community helpers
• Become aware of geographic differences
• Learn about various kinds of houses
• Learn about transportation
• Recognize own address
• Recognize own phone number
• Talk about families
• Become familiar with our school name, and areas of the building we use
  
  

Math

• Count by rote to 20 or more
• Learn 1–1 correspondence
• Recognize numerals 1–10
• Learn numerical ordering
• Recognize sets of 1–10
• Recognize circle, square, triangle & rectangle
• Sort objects by size, shape, etc.
• Experiment with measurement of liquids & solids
• Begin learning time concepts
• Become familiar with mathematical terminology (ex. more/less)
• Experiment with weight
  
  

Science

• Become aware of environment in general
• Recognize seasonal changes
• Predict & experiment
• Experiment with water, wind, magnets, shadows, color, sound, fog, electricity, heat, cold, magnification, plants
• Learn about animals, birds, fish, babies, houses, habitats, sounds, body coverings, tracks
• Investigate rocks, shells, minerals, insects
• Learn about good nutrition, dental health, health & safety

If you need to contact us about your child during school session, please call 662-9348 ext 311.